Close-up of a small black serif tattoo reading 'here,' on a forearm, with a rolled green sleeve above it.

Small serif word 'here,' on a forearm

Lettering · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A small tattoo of the lowercase word 'here,' in a black serif typeface sits on the forearm. The lettering is crisp and solid with a light, even fill, and the comma is included at the end. The pale skin, rolled green sleeve and dark trousers frame the mark in a simple outdoor setting.

Lettering Fine line Forearm Word Text Serif lettering

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit yourself down on that upturned crate, lad, and mind the pot, it's the last of the barley. You want to know why Alf Tennant never once answered to his name without that little pause after it. I'll tell you, though you'll not like the end of it.

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The Harriet Mae was a coaster out of Grimsby, and in the winter of forty-one she carried coal past the Dogger Bank with a crew of nineteen and a cook who could not boil an egg. Every morning at six the bosun stood on the iron deck with his list and read the names, and every man called out his answer. Alf always said it the same way. Here, and then he'd stop, as if the word had a step in it he had to climb down before he could go on.

The sea took the Harriet Mae in March, somewhere off Flamborough, in a black wind that split her plates like biscuit. Nineteen names were read on the lifeboat that morning. Eighteen answered. The bosun read Alf's name a second time, and then a third, and the silence after it was the longest I have ever heard on water.

Years on, a woman came into my cousin's chip shop in Hull with a boy of about eight, and she asked me to write something on the back of a sheet of paper for his bag. She said he kept saying it, here, with that little hitch after, and she'd no idea where he'd got it. I wrote the word and handed her back the pencil. I never told her what the comma was for. Some things you keep for the one who needs them.